Guo Moruo's visit to the USSR

USSR. Moscow. January 12, 1953. Opera singers Vera Aleksandrovna Davydova, Valeria Vladimirovna Barsova, Chang Xiang, the first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, writer Guo Moruo, Chinese political figure Song Qingling, actor Mei Lanfang, opera singer Nadezhda Apollinaryevna Kazantseva (from left to right in the foreground), opera singers Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky (in the center in the background), Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (third from right in the background), actor Suren Akimovich Kocharyan (second from right in the background), pop singer Leonid Osipovich Utesov (on the right in the background), theater critic Pavel Aleksandrovich Markov, ballet dancer Sergei Gavrilovich Koren, singer Dmitry Semenovich Mchedlidze, actors Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Belokurov and Mikhail Georgievich Gelovani (from left to right in the background) in meeting of the delegation from China with Soviet artists. Valentin Sobolev/TASS